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Offline quasimodo

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Favorite Debussy?
on: July 25, 2006, 02:29:19 PM
Which Debussy's piece is your favorite. Whose performance of it would you recommand to listen?
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Offline thorn

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Re: Favorite Debussy?
Reply #1 on: July 25, 2006, 04:11:41 PM
couldnt possibly pick one piece... but the Images are lovely.

Best performance I've heard= Noriko Ogawa
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Re: Favorite Debussy?
Reply #2 on: July 25, 2006, 04:22:33 PM
I agree with Mr. Thorn: there are too many wonderful pieces by him. Anyway, the Preludes are Debussy at its most. I don't know which is my favorite recording, maybe the one by Arturo Michelangeli. Ah! Artur Pizarro played all Debussy and I heard it in the BBC3 broadcast: amazing! Not sure if he recorded yet but I hope so. And there is a CD by Andrei Diev that is quite good.
Best wishes!
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Offline verywellmister

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Re: Favorite Debussy?
Reply #3 on: July 25, 2006, 05:05:09 PM
Preludes: Ce qu'a vu le vent d'ouest
                General Levine (eccentric)
                Bruyeres
                Ondine
                Feux d'artifice
Images:Reflets dans l'eau
             Mouvement
             Poissons d'or
Children's Corner: Dr. Gradus ad Parnassum
L'isle Joyeuse
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Offline joeplaysthepiano

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Re: Favorite Debussy?
Reply #4 on: July 25, 2006, 09:28:09 PM
For me, it's Pagodes from Estampes and his Ballade.  They're both awesome.
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Offline pianojems

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Re: Favorite Debussy?
Reply #5 on: July 25, 2006, 09:45:45 PM
I love the Estampes and Reflets dans l'eau. of course there are many more favorites. As far as the best performer...I strongly feel that Zoltán Kocsis  is the best. He has some Debussy only recordings and are very high quality.   ;D ;D ;D

here's some biograhical info on him:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zolt%C3%A1n_Kocsis
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Re: Favorite Debussy?
Reply #6 on: July 25, 2006, 11:19:16 PM
La Fille aux Cheveux de Lin from preludes 1 is one of the sweetest piano pieces I've heard. 
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Offline baron_von_heimlich

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Re: Favorite Debussy?
Reply #7 on: July 25, 2006, 11:20:43 PM
My favorites are the Etudes, and my favorite performer of them is Pierre-Laurent Aimard.
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Re: Favorite Debussy?
Reply #8 on: July 26, 2006, 02:16:48 AM
there are so many...
but pagodes from estampes is one of my top favourites by him... and glad to see someone else also likes it AS MUCH... cuz i am quite crazy about it.... since the first time i heard it...
ofcourse  images.. preludes.. l'isle joyeause... etudes.. lol.... i am gonna end up naming all of them....
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Re: Favorite Debussy?
Reply #9 on: July 26, 2006, 02:21:20 AM
oh how could i forget... i heard La plus que Lente by debussy  and absolutely loved it even though i didnt know it was by him....  it was after a good year or more of listening to it.. that i found it was him....
ofcourse i like the other two parts of Estampes as well !!!   
and children's corner... it makes me a child :)
infact anything by him......
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Offline chopinfan_22

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Re: Favorite Debussy?
Reply #10 on: July 26, 2006, 02:52:44 PM
Oh, there are so many... Clair de Lune, Reverie, Reflets dans l'eau, La Cathedral Engoutie, Danseuses de Delphes, Arabesque No. 1. Just to name a few.
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Re: Favorite Debussy?
Reply #11 on: July 27, 2006, 04:10:47 AM
There are few Debussy pieces I dislike, but my favourite of them all would be the Suite Bergamasque.

Favourite Debussy pianist is probably Gieseking.
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Re: Favorite Debussy?
Reply #12 on: July 27, 2006, 04:21:45 AM
my favorites are the book 2 preludes (a select few). hamelin performs them best. also, i love the images. aimard and thibaudet do the best job with those.
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Offline cloches_de_geneve

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Re: Favorite Debussy?
Reply #13 on: July 27, 2006, 10:50:30 AM
Quote from: Waldszenen on July 27, 2006, 04:10:47 AM
There are few Debussy pieces I dislike, but my favourite of them all would be the Suite Bergamasque.

Favourite Debussy pianist is probably Gieseking.

Agreed.
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Re: Favorite Debussy?
Reply #14 on: July 27, 2006, 03:34:44 PM
No end of favourites for me! I find that if I pick out almost any piece of his and listen to it properly (that is, not playing as background music), I'll love it instantly! Plus the pieces I've played always remain stuck in my memory as big-time favourites: Bruyeres, Jardins sous la Pluie, Doctor Gradus ad Parnassum, Arabesque no.1.
Actually, one that strikes me as particularly quirky and amusing is the "Gollowog's cakewalk" from the Children's corner, just as a rather peculiar one, but otherwise no preferences because I love them all!
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